Type 2 diabetics are more prone to heart attacks, peripheral vascular disease and stroke. All of these can be linked to hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis). Known risk factors for atherosclerosis are high cholesterol levels, obesity and high blood pressure. A recent study now demonstrates that atherosclerosis and obesity are associated with low vitamin [...]
Why is everyone picking on cholesterol !? It is certainly one of the most misunderstood, demonized molecules that our bodies make! It is so important as a precursor to many important molecules in our bodies and even acts as an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory! We produce cholesterol on an ongoing basis, for an ongoing reason. If [...]
Annette posts a question to metabolism.com since she is on a high dosage of vitamin D due to intestinal surgery. Is the dosage too much for her, she wonders?
When the intestines fail to absorb fats due to surgery or due to disease, Vitamin D which is a fat soluble vitamin, can see its levels [...]
Let’s face it, we are bombarded with information on a daily basis. Fortunately, in the realm of diet, there are 5 numbers that rise above the rest.
Nutrition information is notorious for being confusing, contradictory, and not exactly “user friendly”. Actually, the US government not only provides general guidelines for healthy eating but goes as as [...]
What’s the point of it all? No, not life. Your daily multivitamin.
Over half of us take a multivitamin regularly for the purpose of improving our health. A slew of recent studies question whether they are doing us any good-or maybe even harm.
How Might Multi’s Help?
Here are some of the theories of how multivitamins may be [...]
Written on March 22, 2009 | Posted in
cancer,
diet,
health,
nutrition
Recent information published in the British medical journal Lancet, supports using calcium and vitamin D supplementation to prevent fractures and bone loss in older people. A 12% reduction in bone fractures linked to osteoporosis was seen in people aged 50 and older who used calcium and Vitamin D supplements. Osteoporotic fractures are common with one [...]
Written on November 7, 2007 | Posted in
nutrition,
osteoporosis
Mention Vitamin D to most people and they will try not to yawn. One of the less glamorous vitamins it is known as the sunshine vitamin because our skin, when exposed to the ultraviolet rays in sunlight, manufactures vitamin D. Not unexpectedly sunscreen on the skin blocks this production. The remainder of our body’s supply [...]
Written on February 28, 2007 | Posted in
diet,
nutrition
